Robert C. Holub

Robert C. Holub (August 22, 1949 – August 27, 2023) was an American germanist, university professor and administrator. He served as chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) from August 2008 to June 2012.

Early life and education Born in Neptune Township, New Jersey, Holub was raised in Belmar, New Jersey, and attended Asbury Park High School. He became the first member of his family to attend college. Holub received his bachelor's degree in natural science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, going on to earn master's degrees in comparative literature (in 1973) and German (in 1976) and a Ph.D. in German (1979) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Publications Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia: The Function and Application of the Hellenic Tradition in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 1981). Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction (London and York: Methuen, 1984). Reflections of Realism: Paradox, Norm, and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century German Prose (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991). Jürgen Habermas: Critic in the Public Sphere (London: Routledge, 1991). Crossing Borders: Reception Theory, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992). Friedrich Nietzsche (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995). Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016). Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century: Social Questions and Philosophical Interventions (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).